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Technology, machines, and software that have the ability to be self-directed and learn from their actions are generally known as artificial intelligence. In the early days of computing, RAND researchers examined and tried to develop such technology and apply it for use in political and military simulations.

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Increase the Risk of Nuclear War

Apr 24, 2018

Advances in AI have provoked a new kind of arms race among nuclear powers. This technology could challenge the basic rules of nuclear deterrence and lead to catastrophic miscalculations.
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

Dec 1, 1986

A brief history of RAND's research in artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems from the development of one of the first stored-program digital computers, the JOHNNIAC, to the current work on AI technology and its uses, including work on expert systems, knowledge-based simulation, and human-oriented environments.

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Test Your RAND Knowledge on Jeopardy!

RAND was once a category on the long-running TV game show Jeopardy! How much money could you have won? Take the quiz and find out.

May 5, 2015
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Computer-assisted Reasoning

Computer models provide a powerful tool for reasoning about difficult problems.

Jan 1, 2001
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Thinking About Opponent Behavior in Crisis and Conflict: A Generic Model for Analysis and Group Discussion

Draws on strategic analysis, cognitive psychology, gaming, and artificial intelligence modeling to describe a theory and concrete methodology for thinking about the likely and possible reasoning of opponents before or during crisis and conflict.

Jan 1, 1991
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The Nature of Modeling

This Note, reprinted from Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, and Modeling, Widman, Loparo, Nielson (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989, attempts to define modeling precisely.

Jan 1, 1989
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Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Strategic-Level Gaming and Simulation

This Note describes a large-scale program melding rule-based modeling and traditional simulation in the problem domain of game-structured military strategic analysis.

Jan 1, 1988
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Dependencies, Demons, and Graphical Interfaces in the Ross Language

This Note is one aspect of RAND's investigation of the utility of knowledge-based artificial intelligence techniques to help solve deficiencies that exist in large-scale military simulations.

Jan 1, 1988
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Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Strategic-Level Gaming and Simulation

Describes a large-scale program melding rule-based modeling and traditional simulation in the problem domain of game-structured military strategic analysis in the RAND Strategy Assessment Center.

Jan 1, 1985
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Potential applications of expert systems and operations research to space station logistics functions

This Note is the final report of an assessment study to determine the applicability of operations research, artificial intelligence, and expert systems to logistics problems for the space station, which must support multiple systems using only on-boa...

Jan 1, 1985
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RAND's Experience in Applying Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Strategic-Level Military-Political War Gaming

This paper highlights, for those interested in advanced information science, some recent experience in RAND's Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC), a large-scale Department of Defense program to develop new concepts and techniques combining features ...

Jan 1, 1984
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The RAND Strategy Assessment Center System Perspective

The RAND Strategy Assessment Center (RSAC) is a highly ambitious, multiyear research program to develop a system and methodology that combine the systematic reproducibility of analytic modeling/simulation with the behavioral richness of rule-based artificial intelligence technology.

Jan 1, 1984
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Programming in ROSIE: An Introduction by Means of Examples

ROSIE is a programming language and programming system for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The ROSIE language is a stylized version of English.

Jan 1, 1982
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Rationale and Motivation for ROSIE

ROSIE is a programming language and programming system for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The ROSIE language is a stylized version of English.

Jan 1, 1981
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AI for Systems Management

Complex systems require intelligent control strategies, and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and tools may contribute to the management of such systems. At RAND, we have been developing AI approaches to systems management problems.

Jan 1, 1981
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Schema theory as a guide for educational research: white knight or white elephant?

Much recent cognitive and artificial intelligence research has focused on the development of "schema theory." This theory supposes the existence of knowledge structures that encode prototypical descriptions of familiar concepts. Schema theory has d...

Jan 1, 1981
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Matching and abstraction in knowledge systems

A briefing presented at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Information Science during the 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in Minneapolis. Discusses the creation of a knowledge system and problems r...

Jan 1, 1980
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Natural Language, Linguistic Processing, and Speech Understanding: Recent Research and Future Goals

A discussion of artificial intelligence, computer processing of natural-language data programming languages for problem-solving systems, and structural (contextual, linguistic) pattern recognition.

Jan 1, 1973
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Intrinsic Oscillations in Neural Networks: A Linear Model for the [n]th-Order Loop

A preliminary study of the inherent dynamic properties of feedback pathways composed of millions of brain cells. The ultimate aim is to predict feelings and behavior from the anatomical arrangement of nerve cells.

Jan 1, 1971
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The MIND System: A Data Structure for Semantic Information Processing.

The MIND System: A Data Structure for Semantic Information Processing.

Jan 1, 1971
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Steps Toward a Model of Linguistic Performance : A Preliminary Sketch.

A model of human linguistic performance for computer implementation, limited to the input-output interactions and internal processes available on today's digital computers. The model is to understand factual information input to it, answer questions...

Jan 1, 1967

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